Had an email this morning from Janet with the following question:

I am constantly getting survey invitations from Greenfield Online such as this today:

A New survey Opportunity For You…

 survey On:  Consumer topics  
 Reward: An entry in our current sweepstakes 
 Length: 25 Minutes (Approx.)
 survey Number: 1086209-US-Aug-1

Is there any purpose at all to complete these surveys for a “sweepstakes entry” which is to say, no incentive at all?  25 minutes is a lot of precious time to devote with no reward, unless you consider an almost nil chance of a sweepstakes win a reward.  I don’t.

Do these surveys ever lead to a focus group or a product test?  If so, how often, in your experience?

Hope to hear from you or in your column.  Thank you!

Great question, Janet. And not the easiest one to answer. There was a discussion of this over on the forum a while back, so I’ll give you my personal experience and some of the views of our forum members.

For me, I don’t do sweepstakes entries as much as I should. I just don’t have the time. But I have been invited to an Invoke Interactive which paid $20 from a survey on Survey Spot which was “sweepstakes” only.  So if I had more time to devote in a given day, I would probably do more of them even though it irritates me beyond all reason to spend 30 minutes on a survey for nothing.

Tidy Clean, one of our forum members had this to say:

In my opinion it is worth to do Greenfield and surveyspot surveys for sweepstakes. So far this year I did (10) Invokes. From Greenfield (6) Invokes – lightspeed (1) Invoke – Opinion Place (2) Invokes & Survey Spot (1) Invoke. Plus from Survey Spot I received (15) full sized Test Products so that definitely makes it worth to do all or any surveys from them.

Damo36 also completed an Invoke Interactive which paid $30:

I got my invitation via Greenfield. The survey was originally a 90 minute sweepstakes survey and i had the feeling it was for an Invoke interactive survey. I’m glad i didn’t delete the survey which i usually do for sweepstakes entries. I advise anyone on here to do the same…

Click on the link here to read the entire thread about Invoke Solutions.

Let us know if you have gotten an Invoke survey from a sweepstakes survey and where it came from!

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